Registering event gateway in API Connect 10.0.8.2

With the release of API Connect version 10.0.8.2, customers can configure your IBM Event Endpoint Management instance to be registered as an Event Gateway Service from the Cloud Admin Dashboard in V10 Reserved. With the Event Gateway Service, application developers can discover event endpoints and configure applications to access them through the event gateway.

About Event Management and Use Case

As part of your event-driven architecture solution, Event Endpoint Management provides the capability to describe and catalog your Kafka topics as event sources, and to grant access to application developers within the organization. Application developers can discover event endpoints and configure their applications to access them through the Event Gateway. With Event Endpoint Management, you can control access to any of your event endpoints and control what data can be produced to them or consumed from them. 

Access to the event endpoints is managed by the Event Gateway. The Event Gateway handles the incoming requests from applications to produce (write) events to a topic or to consume from a topic's stream of events. The Event Gateway is independent of your Kafka clusters, making access control to topics possible without requiring any changes to your Kafka cluster configuration.

Integrate Event Endpoint Management with IBM API Connect by importing the AsyncAPI document that defines the event source. This integration provides the option to use events as part of your overall API management solution.

Download the required configuration
To establish trust between API Connect and Event management you need

•        The Ingress CA certificate of API Connect.
•       The Platform API endpoint is required to create the API Connect JWKSURL endpoint.

You can download this information from the Download Configuration tab in the Event Gateway section under the Gateway tile on the Reserved Instance Config Manager home page.

Create TLS Client profile
Under TLS tile on the Reserved Instance Config Manager home page.

•         Upload Event Management’s cluster-ca file to create Truststore 
•         Upload Event Management’s manager-client and manger-key files to create keystore
• Create a TLS client profile by providing following information
  •  Title
  • Under Server connection, select Allow insecure server connections
  • Keystore and Truststore values you created above 

Register Event Gateway

To register Event Gateway, you will need 

• Gateway Title
• Management endpoint - Event gateway management endpoint
• TLS client profile 
• API invocation endpoint - Event gateway client endpoint